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Biography
Paperback. Part reminiscence, part meditation, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the enduring testimony of an alienated person seeking self-knowledge. As he records his walks round Paris, he finds happiness in solitude and nature. The new translation includes an introduction and notes that explore the work and its contexts. Translator(s): Goulbourne, Russell. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199563272
- ISBN
- 9780199563272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. An exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation. Translator(s): Butterworth, Charles E. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872201620
- ISBN
- 9780872201620
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.28
€ 18.99
€ 15.28
Paperback. Translator(s): Scholar, Angela. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGLA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540037
- ISBN
- 9780199540037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
€ 16.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Argues against the inequality the author believed to be intrinsic to civilized society. This title features the first fifty-three years of his radical life, including his earliest years, where we can see the source of his belief in the innocence of childhood; and the development of his philosophical and political ideas. Translator(s): Cohen, John M. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140440331
- ISBN
- 9780140440331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. Reflections of a "revolutionary whore" and champion of sexual freedom and prostitutes' rights. Translator(s): Reines, Ariana. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584350781
- ISBN
- 9781584350781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.19
€ 17.99
€ 16.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816632213
- ISBN
- 9780816632213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.32
€ 26.99
€ 25.32
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781609803469
- ISBN
- 9781609803469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.53
€ 20.99
€ 19.53
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press, U.S.
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583226162
- ISBN
- 9781583226162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.51
€ 40.51
Paperback. Diary of the Dark Years is a sharply observed record of day-to-day life in occupied Paris, but far more: it is "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Wall Street Journal), expressing both shame at French collaboration with the Nazis and the stubborn resistance of an intellectual under great pressure. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BGHA; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190495848
- ISBN
- 9780190495848
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.25
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€ 23.25
Paperback. Moitessier, who navigated with a sextant using the sun, moon, and stars, who sailed with no radio, whose JOSHUA was rigged with discarded telephone poles for masts, came from a sailing world more distant from the modern ocean racer's than his was from Columbus's. Translator(s): Simon, Janine. Num Pages: 224 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: BG; WSSN3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574092042
- ISBN
- 9781574092042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.59
€ 20.99
€ 19.59
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, Black and White Photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 215 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Rizzoli Ex Libris
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847841295
- ISBN
- 9780847841295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.69
€ 25.99
€ 23.69
Paperback. After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. This work provides background to the philosophy of one of the profoundest thinkers of the twentieth century. Translator(s): Clephane, Irene. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BG; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd London
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183466
- ISBN
- 9780141183466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.81
€ 14.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Num Pages: Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; BGH; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1967
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780811201896
- ISBN
- 9780811201896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.46
€ 17.99
€ 16.46
Paperback. The existentialist philosopher chronicles his time in the Resistance in the Second World War. Series: Radical Thinkers. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Verso Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844677849
- ISBN
- 9781844677849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.40
€ 33.40
Paperback. Translated from the French and revised and expanded by the author, the book provides a rich and detailed account of all facets of Lavoisier's extraordinary career. Translator(s): Balinski, Rebecca. Series: Chemical Sciences in Society. Num Pages: 544 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: BG; PN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216493
- ISBN
- 9780812216493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.76
€ 46.99
€ 41.76
Paperback. Recounts the harrowing story of Cadet's youth as a restavec, as well as his inspiring climb to middle-class American life Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KJH; BGA; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 709.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712034
- ISBN
- 9780292712034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.79
€ 20.99
€ 20.79
Paperback. From the author of Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American, which has sold more than 25,000 copies, comes a searing memoir that puts a human face on the issue of child slavery and sounds a call to end it through advocacy and education Num Pages: 293 pages, 11 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KJH; BGA; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780292729292
- ISBN
- 9780292729292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.87
€ 21.99
€ 21.87
Paperback. Presents the story of an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099556091
- ISBN
- 9780099556091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Hardback. This first biography of Rudolph Ganz provides a balanced appraisal of his music and its effect on the western tradition. Illustrated. Extensive endnotes and appendixes. Num Pages: 211 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810828834
- ISBN
- 9780810828834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.67
€ 101.67
Paperback. Offers an account of the Protestant Reformation, reporting on the larger clashes between Protestants and Catholics, and also on events in the author's convent. This work provides a fresh perspective on struggles for religious and political power in sixteenth-century Geneva and a glimpse at early modern monastic life. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: BGX; HBJD; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226417066
- ISBN
- 9780226417066
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.52
€ 36.99
€ 29.52
Hardback. The focus of this book is the trial and conviction of Sante and Kenneth Kimes for the bizarre murder of Irene Silverman, whose New York mansion they were attempting to steal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 35. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871319425
- ISBN
- 9780871319425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.56
€ 23.99
€ 22.56
Paperback. The private life of Marie Antionette Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 478
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845886387
- ISBN
- 9781845886387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.71
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€ 22.71
Paperback. The brilliant young forensic pathologist had no idea that the body on the slab in front of him would change his life, and ultimately change the world. The body belonged to legendary American Footballer Mike Webster, whose mental health had rapidly declined after he had stopped playing - he had ended up. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BT; KNSP; WSJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241975916
- ISBN
- 9780241975916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.75
€ 20.99
€ 16.75
Hardback. During her mother's long death from Alzheimer's, Jeanne Murray Walker learned to navigate the memories and history that connects her to her mother, her family and her own childhood in hopeful and beautiful ways. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BM; MJND; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 31. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455544981
- ISBN
- 9781455544981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 28.43
€ 42.99
€ 28.43